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The Cooper family, from left, Clarke, Scott, Austin (one row down), Molly and Sidney often can be found in McKenzie Arena for UTC basketball games and Finley Stadium for UTC football.<\/p><\/div>\n

UTC graduate Molly Cooper figures her first daughter was about three weeks old when she attended her first UTC basketball game. \u201cShe\u2019s been all in from the beginning,\u201d Molly says.<\/p>\n

Actually, it has been \u201call in\u201d for all three of the Cooper daughters \u2014 9-year-old Clarke, 7-year-old Austin, 2-year-old Sidney. Toting the babies in car seat carriers, the Coopers would stroll into the mayhem of games at McKenzie Arena. At first, Molly and husband Scott worried that the sound\u2014crowd, cheerleaders, announcers\u2014might lead to fussing or crying.<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they were hearing it in the womb, but they never woke up,\u201d says Scott. \u201cSince birth, it\u2019s been second nature to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Always sitting behind the Mocs bench in McKenzie Arena, the family is easy to spot. All four girls, including mother Molly, have shining, strawberry-blonde locks. \u201cSay a prayer for me,\u201d Scott says with a smile.<\/p>\n

More than just red hair and Mocs-love, though, the extended Cooper family has a UTC pedigree that stretches back in time. Both sides of the family usually attend the six home games for the Mocs football team\u2014yes, tailgating, too\u2014and most of the 15 home games for the basketball team. Before the kids came along, Molly and Scott would sometimes travel to away games.<\/p>\n

Both Coopers are UTC graduates; Molly earned a degree in psychology in 1998 and Scott in 2002 in mass communications. The UTC connection goes even deeper, with 15 of his family members either attending, graduating or working at UTC. Scott’s aunt and uncle\u2014Fran Bender and Kit Rushing, who are married\u2014worked at UTC for decades before retiring.<\/p>\n

His parents\u2014George and Pat\u2014graduated from the school when it was still the University of Chattanooga. And yes, they took Scott and his brother to basketball games in Maclellan Gym when the boys were kids. \u201cI sat on their lap at Big Mac (the nickname for Maclellan),\u201d recalls Scott, who now works at TVA. \u201cI remember going to the airport to welcome the team back from the NCAA tournament, waiting for the plane to return.\u201d<\/p>\n

Molly\u2019s parents, Annie and Jim Hall (he is the former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board and former member of the UT board of trustees), graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville but moved to Chattanooga in 1974. Like her husband\u2019s parents, Molly\u2019s mom and dad began taking her to Mocs games when she was a child. They still come to games with the rest of the family, which includes Scott\u2019s dad and mom, as well as some aunts, uncles and cousins.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the time when we go, my parents are going to be there. We know Scott\u2019s Dad is going to be there,\u201d says Molly, who works at Erlanger Hospital. \u201cTo be perfectly honest, with the kids, that\u2019s the draw beyond the game itself. They love that family time, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the kids usually enjoy going on athletic adventures, Scott acknowledges that \u201csome of the time it\u2019s because we are <\/em>going.”<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t hunt or fish or play golf, so that\u2019s sort of what we like to do and what I like to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a recent basketball game in McKenzie Arena, Molly\u2019s parents and Scott\u2019s dad are part of the crowd. Clarke has a Big Shoe Crew T-Shirt on while Austin is decked out in a Cat in the Hat T-shirt on which sister Sally says, \u201cI read Blue,\u201d and the never-named brother says, \u201cI read Gold\u201d as the Cat sits between them, smiling slyly. Sidney is wearing a gray UTC Mocs hoodie and keeping stats in the scorebook in true two-year-old fashion.<\/p>\n

All scribbles.<\/p>\n

At one point, she bends down and asks Scott\u2019s father, \u201cGranddaddy, why didn\u2019t you wear your hat tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I just left it at home, sweetie,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Although the family goes to both basketball and football games, Clarke, sitting next to her father, says he enjoys the court more than the gridiron. \u201cBasketball makes more sense to me than football,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Even so, she and her sisters\u2014well, maybe not Sidney so much\u2014pay attention to the game, cheering when they should and yelling and booing when they should. For instance, they join the chorus of heckling when a member of the opposing team is taking a foul shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey like being part of something fun, even though they sometimes pay attention to the football and at basketball they like the cheerleaders and ice cream and some of the other things,\u201d their father says.<\/p>\n

While family time is a major part of the equation for the Cooper family, Scott says he also wants to instill a sense of belonging in his children, an understanding of the importance of UTC in Chattanooga as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cUTC is one of the icons of our town,\u201d he says. \u201cThey identify it with being Chattanooga. It\u2019s an identifiable thing with the school that also lets them know that they\u2019re home<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, it helps having the Power C and that our last name is Cooper.\u201d<\/p>\n

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